Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left) and Nicola Sacco (right) in custody during their murder trial.

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Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco (right) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left) walking through a crowd while handcuffed after being accused of the murder of a paymaster and a guard in South Braintree, Mass., 1920.

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...political and social ideals made her a symbol of the youth of her time. In 1927 she donated the proceeds from her poem “
Justice Denied in Massachusetts” to the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti and personally appealed to the governor of the state for their lives. Her major later works include
The Buck in the Snow (1928), which introduced a more...

...in the United States was suppressed. Berkman, Goldman, and many others activists were imprisoned and deported. In a sensational trial in the spring of 1920, two immigrant Italian anarchists, Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were convicted of killing a payroll clerk and a guard during a robbery at a Massachusetts shoe factory. In apparent retaliation for the conviction, a bomb was...